Toccopolasam

Toccopolasam Southern Gothic Folk artist I'm an outsider artist of women's traditional arts. I've been categorized both as a folk artist and southern Gothic artist.

I'm not sure either category fits me, but I know my art is informed by a feminine gaze. I distrust labels of this kind. Like my grandmother sewing, I do this because I consider it beautiful. I believe in making art that has a narrative, one that creates an ambiance contributing to the visual effect of the work. Like all Southerners raised in the specter of Lost Cause discourse, memories haunt me a

nd my work as an artist. Although southern Gothic is generally rendered in ochre’s and gray because of multiple layers of decay on the genre, I use garish, Madi Gras colors in defiance of the myth that Scarlet O Hara is alive and well and living in Toccopola. My art searches the landscape for signs of the new south, I'm trying to scrape off the Mary Kay and show the real face however pock-marked of lady antebellum.

05/07/2020
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08/12/2019

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Houston, Mississippi, I give you Toccopolasam
05/28/2019

Houston, Mississippi, I give you Toccopolasam

02/19/2019

Close ups

All done ✅
02/19/2019

All done ✅

She’s up
01/07/2019

She’s up

01/06/2019

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Pontotoc, MS
38863

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+16622962528

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